Thoughts on Revelation: With Special Reference to the Present Time (Classic Reprint)

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That which would be our security, if our faith were exposed to so extreme a trial as the Apostle supposes, belongs to the nature of true faith at all times, and ought to be our conscious peace under any ordinary trial to our faith, and, indeed, apart from all such trial: while it is a most important end of every trial of faith, to awaken into consciousness the elements of such peace, when, through lack of trial, they have ceased to be realized. How jealous the Apostle was on this subject, the whole tenor of his teaching testifies; which all accords with the view of the relation of teachers and taught, which he expresses when he says, Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand)

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